anthropology

An artist rendering of several large mammoths walking through a field

Research

To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say

UC Berkeley archeologists say the findings might help resolve the debate about Clovis points and reshape how we think about hunting some 13,000 years ago.

Two chimpanzees near each other while perched on a wooden structure in front of green leaves

Research

Move over dolphins. Chimps and bonobos can recognize long-lost friends and family — for decades

a composite image of six photos in the shape of a puzzle pieces locked together that show various moments in the lives of two people who went from Russian protests to UC Berkeley

Campus & community

Rescuing dissent: Inside the yearlong mission to bring prominent Putin critics to UC Berkeley

poster of Nelson Mandela on a pillar with people walking along nearby street

Mind & body

On the forefront of genetics, mental illness and trauma’s lasting effects

Vince Medina and Louis Trevino, co-founders of Café Ohlone, stand together in the courtyard of the Hearst Museum, where construction is going on for a new home for the café.

PBS NewsHour features campus work to repatriate artifacts to Indigenous tribes

Rosemary Joyce, professor of anthropology.

Anthropologist Rosemary Joyce awarded a distinguished honorary doctorate

Quinoa growing on Bolivia's Taraco Peninsula.

The superfoods that fueled ancient Andeans through 2,500 years of turmoil

Berkeley Talks: Linda Rugg on Native American repatriation at UC Berkeley

Zachary O'Hagan in the home of anthropologist Gerald Weiss packing up his Ashaninka collection.

Chance phone call keeps alive scholar’s remarkable Amazonian legacy

Anthropology professor Paul Rabinow in Paris in 2002.

World-renowned anthropologist Paul Rabinow dies at 76

Jessica Johnson, a doctoral student in Egyptology, uses a Vive Cosmos VR headset to explore a recreation of the 2,500-year-old tomb of Psamtik.

A tomb with a view: Egyptologist recreates after-death experience

What crocodile mummies can tell us about everyday life in ancient Egypt

Morino Baca, a Native American graduate student in public health, works on an archaeology project in Pueblo de Abiquiú, 20 miles from Española in New Mexico where he grew up. At left, UC Berkeley student Jasper Sundeen. (Photo by Danny Sosa Aguilar)

Indigenous archaeology plows forward, despite anthropology’s checkered past

Seven La Chamba pots used in experiment on the residue of past meals cooked.

To recreate ancient recipes, check out the vestiges of clay pots

Painting of Cahokia by William R. Iseminger, courtesy of Cahokia Mounds Historic State Site.

New study debunks myth of Cahokia’s Native American lost civilization

Portrait of Francoise Bourzat next to her book cover

Berkeley Talks: Consciousness guide on using psychedelics as medicine

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